Oracle unveils second Exadata machine; Ellison steps up data warehousing push (ZDNet Blogs)
Oracle Dumps HP After Co-Creating "Most Successful Introduction Ever" (Information Week)

Oracle earnings meet expectations of analysts
(San Jose Mercury News)

Comcast CFO: Third quarter 'shaping up just fine' (MarketWatch)

Comcast Considering 4G Voice
Though details are all but non-existent (Broadband Reports)
Does 4G actually sound better than 3G? Don't know.

Comcast plans to bring TV shows to your phone (Reuters)

Comcast to rape subs even more by raising cable modem rental fee to $5 nationwide (CrunchGear)

Mint.com: Nurtured by Super-Angel VCs
Intuit is acquiring a startup conceived by a "25-year-old kid" and funded by First Round Capital, a new breed of high-risk, early-stage venture capitalist (Business Week)


BioClinica™ Acquires Tourtellotte Solutions (Business Wire)

Portico Systems Selected by CIGNA (Business
Wire)

Vertex Integrates Support for Its Software Products with SAP® Enterprise Support (Business Wire)

Kulicke & Soffa raises revenue outlook (EE Times)

Taleo eyes deals to boost market share: CEO (Reuters)

Venture Fair Wraps Up GoodCompany Ventures' Inaugural Class (The Green Skeptic)



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Information Week 500

The 2009 Information Week 500 is out, what IW calls its "Ranking Of The Most Innovative Business Technology Organizations". Relatively tiny Harleysville Group Inc., which has been rising on the list under the leadership of Senior VP & CIO Akhil Tripathi, ranks seventh. Other area companies in the top 100 are Cigna (64) and A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts (70).

Princeton-based Heartland Payment Systems ranked 224, despite
having suffered what many consider the worst commercial hacking incident ever.




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Should Comcast Buy Sprint?
Bloggers certainly seem to think so... (Broadband Reports)

TW Cable downplays merger with Comcast
CFO says just getting bigger not strategic (Hollywood Reporter)

Oracle May Spin MySQL To Win EU OK For Sun Deal, Analyst Says (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Mintuit! (Permanent Record)

Tech start-ups stick around (WHYY)
University City Science Center’s impact $9B, study says (Philadelphia Business Journal)

IDS Scheer’s ARIS Selected to Standardize Deloitte’s Business Process Modeling Approach
IndustryPrintTM Offerings by Deloitte will use ARIS to Deliver Best-in-Class Business Processes (Business Wire)

ZEDIT SOLUTIONS INC. ACQUIRES SAP BUSINESS ONE E-COMMERCE & WEBCRM PRODUCTS (Wire Service Canada)

Co-founder Plattner to cut stake in SAP (Reuters)


Siemens and PJM Announce Public Release of Shared Architecture Integration Platform (PR Newswire via Reuters)

SunGard Tracks Carbon Footprint with GreenBoard Technology (Business Wire)

MedAssurant, Inc. and Jefferson School of Population Health Establish Strategic Partnership to Advance Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research (Business
Wire)

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, wife, hang with Diane Sawyer, Mike Nichols (Philadelphia Daily News: Dan Gross)



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Daily Links 9/14/09: Intuit To Acquire Mint

Intuit To Acquire (Former TechCrunch50 Winner) Mint For $170 Million
(TechCrunch)
First Round Capital portfolio company.
A deal that was "mint to be..." (Redeye VC)

Deutsche Telekom acquires SAP European hosting services (V3.co.uk)

Comcast Should Buy Sprint (GigaOM)
Must have heard this 50 times, and still don"t understand why its a good idea.

Heir to Haas fortune a potential investor in Phila. Newspapers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Brand New Video – Touch Screen Kiosks at Wizard World Chicago (TicketLeap Blog)

Maxwell Systems Releases Estimating Touch Screen Monitor (PR Newswire)

QlikTech Expands Commitment in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (PR Web)

International Battery Awarded $2.1 Million in Federal Funding to Develop Advanced Batteries for U.S. Army (Business Wire)

Comcast: It’s time to act on digital-service upgrade (Delco Times)

Oracle to unveil Sun-based Exadata database machine (ZDNet Blogs)

Heartland CEO: Credit Card Encryption Needed (CIO.com)

WPCS Reports FY2010 First Quarter Financial Results (PR Newswire)



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Philly Tech Events Calendar

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Conshohocken's Viridity Energy, Targeting Smart Grid Solutions, Applies For Stimulus Funds

A Conshohocken startup, Viridity Energy, is seeking to help the US implement "Smart Grid" technology solutions. The one year old company, which has been working on tests with Drexel, PECO, and New York's Con Edison, among others, last week joined with several other companies partnering with Con Ed in applying for $46 million under the Federal Stimulus plan to fund a smart grid demonstration project. In Pennsylvania, Viridity also applied for a grant with Drexel , Penn State, the University of Pennsylvania and PECO. Other grant applications involving Viridity were filed in California and New Mexico.

Viridity uses a power management system developed by the energy unit of Siemens AG, complemented by its own technology, to implement what it calls "Virtual Power Plants". These enable an organization to manage its collective physical plant's energy use on a near real-time basis, buying to meet peak energy needs and selling excess production back onto the grid. Founded by utility veterans including former execs of Valley Forge grid management giant PJM , Virdity employs 11 people and is primarily funded by AltEnergy,LLC. President & CEO Audrey Zibelman was formerly EVP & COO of PJM.




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Comcast to Take TiVo National by Year End? (Zatz Not Funny!)
Update: Comcast now says timeline described in tweet was incorrect.

Siemens cans SAP support (ZDNet Blogs)

Deutsche Telekom Mulls Sprint Bid, Telegraph Reports (Bloomberg)



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People News 9/13/09

Drug Information Association (DIA) Names New Worldwide Executive Director (Business Wire)

TargetRx Expands Management Team to Support Continued Growth
Industry Leaders from IMS & Verispan Join TargetRx to Field Increasing Demand for Pharma & Biotech Sales & Marketing Solutions (Business Wire)


TelVue Corporation Promotes Daniell Krawczyk to National Sales Director, Community Broadcasting (GlobeNewswire via MarketWatch)

NCTA appoints Rick Chessen to regulatory policy post (Fierce Telecom)

Nancy Brennan Joins MedRisk as Vice President Customer Service (Business Wire)


Toni Hess Joins Rosetta as Partner in Creative and Customer Experience Group
(PR Newswire)

Mike Renda to succeed Pat Mullen atop WFLD, WPWR (Chicago Tribune)



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TV Mega-mergers? Bad for Subscribers, Good for the Web (GigaOM)

Video: Introduction to ERP complexity (ZDNet Blogs)

Smartphones drive business for software writers
Companies find mobile apps provide a potential gold mine (NJBIZ.com)



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Oracle Has Customers Over a Barrel (Business Week)

SAP and SME's: an update (ZDNet Blogs)

Hacker Gonzalez Pleads Guilty to 20 Charges (IDG via New York Times)

Brightcove, thePlatform Announce New Partners (Contentinople)

Verizon CFO: More Job Cuts Coming
16,000 job cuts was only just the beginning (Broadband Reports)

MetroPCS Talking To Bankers, But Not Leap (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Technology Professionals connect in King of Prussia (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)




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Is Comcast Trolling For Content?
Burke Says Cable Giant Would Look at Complementary Content Acquisitions
(Multichannel News)

Will Comcast Buy Time Warner Cable? (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

VOD Startup Verivue Pulls In $20 Million Round
Investors Include Comcast, Arris, Sigma Partners and Other VC Firms (Multichannel News)

Troubled Times Test SAP's Strategy (CIO Today)

SAP Wants More Software Guinea Pigs (Business Week)

Motorola’s First Android Phone Takes Aim at Social Networks (Wired: Gadget Lab)

Tech Companies Push to Digitize Patients’ Records (New York Times)

Oracle Deal Holding Up Sales Of New Sun Servers - Avnet (Dow Jones via CNN Money)

HP Sued For Server Failure
Shipping and logistics vendor BDP International lost business due to system meltdown, suit contends. (Information
Week)

CardioNet Announces Enhanced MCOT System (Business Wire)


Awesome Philly Internship Opportunity! (Editor on the Verge)




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